NEWS BREVITIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 33, 2 May 1927, Page 1

NEWS BREVITIES

Four Shops Burned.—A fire at Hackpool, Queensland, destroyed four ihops. The damage is estimated at £19,000. —A. and N.Z. Hamilton Rainfall.—Rain fell in Hamilton on seventeen days during April. The maximum fall recorded was .65 inches on April 23. The month’s rainfall totalled 3.02 inches. Lady Russeil Turns Catholic.—Lady Russell, wife of the British Minister tt the Vatican. Sir Odo Russell, has become a Catholic. She received communion from the Pope.—A. and N.Z.— Sun. Dental Clinic.—A contract has been let for & one-chair dental clinic building at Tauranga. A sum of £l3O was ■ubscribed by the public carrying a Government subsidy of £2, for £l. MiBB Joyce Hall has been appointed nurse. Vital Statistics.—There were 45 births in Hamilton during April, an increase of seven over the corresponding period last year. Deaths totalled 15, a decrease of 10, while marriages 1126^ three more than in April, Lin.r Launching Broadcast. The Mw Commonwealth and Dominion H®* Port Gisborne was launched at ;iwallaend-on- Tyne. A description of * r ® aion y was broadcast through- ■ and the Continent.—A. and «.z. —Sun. , "oylty In Adelaide.—The Duke and r®r e 3! ° f York arrived at Adelaide jTom Melbourne in glorious weather. * ere welcomed by a storm of ~o m hu S® crowds who lined miles of the route to Government House. on Theft Charge. with breaking and entering gorge Henderson Ogllvie’s house at 4! i , 3 on A P ril 27, and stealing KJ* the gas meter, Russell “raey Diamond, aged 21, was reto May 5, In the Police Court Morning. .jllew Zealand Jacobites.—New Zeathe only Jacobite newsSJr* Empire. The wife of exto thT »Bavaria is, according rei»n 7 < ®Si^ rn ists, the rightful soveSKV* Great Britain and Ireland, uuie paper appears quarterly'. “Refresher.”—Auckland dioCle W *U attend a refresher ttaki College at Ta•PeaW™ .„ May 16 to Ma> 20. The <ky \ i? 11 mclude Revs. R. H. HobBamf^ W^ Payne » R - G * Coats, E. E. ArchdaV ?* J * Stanton and Canon lege. il * of King’s Colthe P i*”,* a^° r Game Birds.—The use of “iseuJJt.” now being suggested from A,..» ? transporting game birds qui ck to New Zealand. This "the nee..!?. ot transport is to obviate Snip. w . <t Y °f feeding birds en route, life, e’m k , su bsist largely on marine The anine i >rou kht over in this way. not destructive Sood same bird, and •Soniw S * hool "’ a *ter.—Mr. J. F. fchoor h ' headmaster of. Hairini 0 the pha rece ived an appointment w°* Makauri School, eaves at n, mi * es trom Gisborne, and 'ious to till? end of this month. PreltDon»lrt „" s char Se at Hairini, Mr. nw ? rst as «istant at Te hm a,. s( . v ?i''? trict High School, and reservedly popular. M the^b!?r,° n Llmited -—An axle of ditch left wfn? 5 <:ars on the Limited »S became O? h u ston on Friday even--0 Palmerston e v- hea . ted on the Journey :or s hat' to , North, and the passenarrias,. ami transfer to an ordinary L The best n Vel -^ n to Auckland in [aa given thlm° SSI j e accommodation a rd the extra money torths win*,?. 8 , aid for the sleeping will be refunded to them.